Is this the best job any foodie could have, ever?

You know how the saying goes: choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

And this couldn't be any more true than for Sophie Hardy who has just been appointed as the UK's first Official Eating Officer.

*Dream job alert*

The 25-year-old was hired by Weight Watchers to eat her way around Britain in order to test whether or not our favourite restaurants are diet friendly. Not all heroes wear capes.

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'Let's go out for dinner?' are the five most dreaded words anyone trying to lose weight can hear – at home, we're safe. At home, we can measure, weigh and control but in restaurants we are the menu's mercy and it can often send us catapulting off the bandwagon – mouth first.

But no longer! Because Sophie is going to take the gravy covered bullet for all of us and mark menus with a Weight Watchers stamp of approval so you know where, and what, you can eat when dining out.

Could it get any better?

Well, yes, because to apply for the job the only criteria listed was that 'the applicant's current weight fitted within the criteria deemed appropriate to be following the weight loss programme' ie. they had to have lost a certain amount of weight following Weight Watchers.

Head of Programme at Weight Watchers, Julia Westgarth, told us that 'there were over 540 applicants via the online application form and these were shortlisted into a shorter list which were all interviewed individually via Skype or FaceTime. From there, a final selection was made.'

And Sophie, who was a size 26 at just 16 years before losing 5 stone 8 lbs, certainly fits the criteria. She told the Metro: 'I am excited to show the UK that life doesn't have to stop while leading a healthier lifestyle.'

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